What?! I can figure out the “Your hair is ripe” business – a literal translation of “baal pak gaye hain”, but what on earth does a dodo have to do with a woman who’s old? She should be extinct by now?
Wait; maybe I think I know. When we were in college, and even among friends from office, a `dodo’ was somebody who was really dumb. Maybe that’s what he means. But definitely not a word one would use in subtitles, where people unfamiliar with Hinglish slang would be all at sea.

‘Your hair has turned gray but you havent wisened, you are still stupid’.
I can imagine any number of old couples in Hindi cinema saying that to one another…… Leela Misra must have said that to all her screen husbands… But the choice of the word ‘dodo’…. well I agree on that…

Reminds me of another subtitle in one of the screen-caps on this site… Something about ‘ Your worried hair’….. this must be a translation of the very poetic ‘ tumhari zulf pareeshan’….. which you might say to your flustered lover teasingly, it has to do with the curls in your hair and confusion….. But the literal translation makes it so absurd and YES Funny.

These subtitles are great precisely because it’s obvious what the intent is (at least it was for me: you are old but haven’t gotten any smarter—we use “dodo” to mean dumb as well) but the literal translation just doesn’t *quite* cut it. In fact, the subtitle went by and after a minute or so I thought: “Wait, what? Did I really just see that?” and went back to see it again. Priceless. And yes, Dulari is saying it to her husband, played by Nasir.

Dulari is lovely, I’ve only seen her (when she was quite young) in the dreadful Jeevan Jyoti, but she was easily one of the best things in that (not that there was much competition!)…It’s from the film Chirag, which I still haven’t decided if I’ll write up or not as it was pretty average fare despite Raj Khosla directing—except Sunil Dutt was v. handsome and Asha P. was GORGEOUS. Maybe just some screencaps will suffice :-)